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My next new car?
shardian:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on March 20, 2008, 11:43:22 am ---Unreliable older cars are fine if you're single, I guess.
And, yeah, they've really improved the quality of them lately.
I'm surprised rust is still such a problem, though. I thought all the car makers were electrolytically painting the undercarriages now. Volvo's used to be zinc plated, how do they hold up?
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Oh yeah, I forgot about the single thing. Old POS cars that break down are a bad idea if you have a baby/toddler. That is the main reason I upgraded.
As to Volvo's, they are the ONLY car maker to ever go the extra yard on their body protection. It is very rare to see rust on a volvo, even in bad conditions. I have two. the '89 740 with almost 300k miles doesn't have a spot of rust anywhere, and it has seen more than its share of salt. The 94 850 has had crumpled area on the front exposed to elements around the edges for years and barely has surface rust there.
ChadTower:
Why would they salt roads where you live? Odd.
Here they salt the roads so much you can literally taste it in the air some mornings. It's nasty. You can't lean on your car - you'll end up with a coating of salt on your clothes. Salt saturated runoff does such damage to my lawn every year that some years I almost have to start over. The roads look like salt flats when they dry out - white powdery patterns everywhere.
HaRuMaN:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 20, 2008, 12:06:54 pm ---
Why would they salt roads where you live? Odd.
Here they salt the roads so much you can literally taste it in the air some mornings. It's nasty. You can't lean on your car - you'll end up with a coating of salt on your clothes. Salt saturated runoff does such damage to my lawn every year that some years I almost have to start over. The roads look like salt flats when they dry out - white powdery patterns everywhere.
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I lived in southwest Virginia for a while. Quite a bit of road salt used during the winter. There's this little thing called snow, the salt melts it.
shardian:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 20, 2008, 12:06:54 pm ---
Why would they salt roads where you live? Odd.
Here they salt the roads so much you can literally taste it in the air some mornings. It's nasty. You can't lean on your car - you'll end up with a coating of salt on your clothes. Salt saturated runoff does such damage to my lawn every year that some years I almost have to start over. The roads look like salt flats when they dry out - white powdery patterns everywhere.
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We get snow here too you know. They also tend to go overboard with the salt. When I commuted an hour to school in my Tracker, which was black, it would stay snow white all winter.
ChadTower:
Didn't know that. I've had friends come up from VA and go "holy CRAP wtf is with the salt on everything".
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